In June, Slovenia and Croatia formally seceded from Yugoslavia, bringing the crisis to a head.
She will become the first woman to lead Slovenia since its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
Slovenia, along with Croatia, was the first republic to proclaim independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
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Tensions have run high in Macedonia since it won independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
He founded ICN (nyse: ICN - news - people) four years after emigrating from Yugoslavia.
In October 1991, as war raged in neighbouring Croatia, the Bosnian parliament gathered to debate whether to declare independence from Yugoslavia.
Croatia split from Yugoslavia in the wars of the 1990s, and is currently going through a painful transition into a market economy.
In between Ahmed was also importing tractors from Yugoslavia, at least when the Pakistani government wasn't busy nationalizing all businesses in the 1970s.
Although its separation from Yugoslavia was largely peaceful, it was hit by violence during 2001, with the country's Albanian minority demanding greater rights.
Less than 20 years ago, the fledgling nation of Croatia was in the throes of the bitter Croatian War of Independence as it declared sovereignty from Yugoslavia.
Slovenia may only have become independent from Yugoslavia in 1991, but this small nation of two million inhabitants has been making up for lost time.
Karadzic -- last seen in public in 1996 -- was the Bosnian Serb political leader during the 1992-1995 war that followed Bosnia-Herzegovina's secession from Yugoslavia.
Apart from Yugoslavia itself, the biggest worries are about Macedonia, whose delicate internal balance between its Slav majority and a swelling ethnic-Albanian minority has been threatened.
Macedonia also has suffered internal strife since its departure from Yugoslavia in 1991, much of it related to a rights struggle by the country's large Albanian minority.
Mr Djukanovic's likely coalition partners favour outright independence from Yugoslavia.
The referendum was only the third such vote in Croatia after it in 1991 voted to secede from Yugoslavia, and last year to join the European Union this summer.
Croatia and its neighbor have been at odds over a number of political and territorial issues since both split from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and since Slovenia become an EU member in 2004.
Jackson has previously led missions that resulted in the release of a downed U.S. Navy pilot from Syria in 1984, the repatriation of Americans held in Iraq before the 1991 Persian Gulf war, and in the return of three captured U.S. soldiers from Yugoslavia during the 1999 Kosovo conflict.
Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic - whose parents came from former Yugoslavia - is a hero for many immigrant boys in Rosengard.
During 1992, the worst year of the war in Bosnia, the total number of asylum-seekers in Britain from former Yugoslavia stood at 5, 635.
In 1995, leaders from former Yugoslavia signed a Bosnian peace treaty in Paris, formally ending Europe's worst conflict since World War II and opening the way for thousands of NATO troops to move into the shattered country.
Albanian asylum-seekers are listed, as they have always been, as coming from the former Yugoslavia.
The win in Baku makes it three wins from three and Yugoslavia now look the biggest danger in group nine.
"There was never policy of this country and my policy to expel any citizen of Yugoslavia from any part of this country, " he said.
Montenegro has always been a separate republic from Serbia, like all the other republics who seceded from the old Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
Like Marshal Tito, who ran Yugoslavia from 1945 until his death in 1980, the young Tudjman was a Marxist from Croatia who fought hard against the Nazis and their regional proxies, the murderous Ustasha regime.
Croatia will be the second independent country from within the former Yugoslavia to join the EU, after Slovenia.
In the early 1990s they told us they could solve the Balkan conflicts resulting from the breakup of Yugoslavia.
When Croatia declared its independence from the wreck of Yugoslavia in 1991, Mr Galbraith was named the first American ambassador there.
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